# User able to post exceeding maximum length restrictions

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-able-to-post-exceeding-maximum-length-restrictions/49983>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [September 11, 2016, 4:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-able-to-post-exceeding-maximum-length-restrictions/49983 "2016-09-11T16:25:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-able-to-post-exceeding-maximum-length-restrictions/49983/4 "2016-09-12T16:28:14Z")

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> [@cpradio](#):
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> In the sense, that the Post Approval Queue isn’t validating the post before permitting it.

It’s honestly a little challenging to validate every little thing, due to the way the queue works. The (perhaps wrong) assumption I made when designing it was that the staff member had to approve it anyway, so the validation was less important.

Having said that, I did manage to get a bunch more validation in place, including the length:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/2c9a47dda511a15efbf4ee4e92bee0b0f7b07def](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/2c9a47dda511a15efbf4ee4e92bee0b0f7b07def)

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